[OLD STEVE] [WORLD OF THE CONTENT] [THE RE-WRITTEN LIST] [LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS] [THE THREE LEVELS]
CHAPTER 51.
An Action Plan.
MY BIOGRAPHY.
1. We needed a plan of action, as following a few more tears, we had to knuckle down to reality and come to terms with our situation.
There was still a lot of pain and we knew that people would start putting two and two together and coming up with five, so we decided that we would tell the 'unimportant' people that we had had a difference with the brewery and that they had been totally unreasonable and so we had shut shop and were in the process of moving out. Strangely, everyone seemed to accept this, or they did so to our faces, although we did hear that the rumour, being circulated by some 'dick head' barmaid, in the Pub round the corner, was that we had been 'locked in, upstairs, by the Brewery.' That made our image, the one being seen out and about on the street, as one of cardboard cutouts, no doubt? Silly Bitch.
2. They, the unknowns downstairs, had a key to open the connecting door between the pub and the private quarters but we didn't and they said they needed it for the alarm system, the control unit of which was on the wall of the staircase leading up to the private quarters. As these people were complete strangers to us I decided that the best course of action was to obtain, which I did, a large piece of wood that I placed between the door and an adjacent wall, thus preventing them from opening it. I solved the alarm problem by turning it off for them.
3. Within days the phone went off, which I suppose is only natural when they found out they were not going to get paid and the correspondence from the Receiver assured me that they couldn't disconnect the gas and electricity supplies during my term of notice to quit and that that was the brewery's concern, as my landlords.
4. I borrowed my car back.
5. We had only a few pounds, in cash. All other accounts, with the exception of one, in my wife's name that she used for private purchases, and the one the Tax Inspector had shown misguided interest in, and which at the time had £42 in it, had been seized and frozen. So we had virtually nothing and in a very short time we would have nowhere to live either.
6. When we went to the bank to ask for the £42, they said No, not until the Receiver said they could release it. I rang the Receivers Office and they said they would look into it and nothing happened. But their 'hand out' literature indicated that we should seek help from the DHSS if we had no visible means of support.
